News flash: Iowa bureaucrat says tourists spent more than $7 billion in Iowa last year.
About two-thirds of it was the cost of driving around, trying to find a way out. Wait. I made that up, although it is not a totally implausible thought.
But I find the news item important as an illustration of the genius displayed by our official shreikspersons. For instance:
Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham says travelers are perfect taxpayers because "they come to our communities for a short time and leave billions of dollars behind."
Well said, Debi. Now if we only had a law preventing our own wild and crazy guys from traveling around and spending money in other hip scenes... (I'm thinking of places like Nebraska.)
Hey, they're the perfect tax subjects. We have taxes on hotels/motels, rental cars, whatever else a visitor must pay to use. JAGSC
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